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SB969

SOL; verified credit.

Status:
Killed

Chief Patron:
Steve Newman (R)

Session:
2018 Regular Session

Summary

As Passed House of Origin. High school graduation requirements; verified credits.

Requires the Board of Education, in establishing high school graduation requirements, to require students to earn one verified credit in history and social science by (i) the successful completion of a Board-developed end-of-course Standards of Learning assessment; (ii) achievement of a passing score on a Board-approved standardized test administered on a statewide, multistate, or international basis that measures content that incorporates or exceeds the Standards of Learning content in the course for which the verified credit is given; or (iii) achievement of criteria for the receipt of a locally awarded verified credit from the local school board in accordance with criteria established in Board guidelines when the student has not passed a corresponding Standards of Learning assessment. The bill prohibits such end-of-course Standards of Learning assessment from being a performance-based assessment. (Less)

  • Bill History

  • 01/19/2018 - Senate: Presented and ordered printed 18105709D
  • 01/19/2018 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
  • 01/24/2018 - Senate: Assigned Education sub: Public Education
  • 02/01/2018 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB969)
  • 02/01/2018 - Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (14-Y 1-N)
  • 02/01/2018 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 18106049D-S1
  • 02/02/2018 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
  • 02/05/2018 - Senate: Read second time
  • 02/05/2018 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
  • 02/05/2018 - Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 18106049D-S1
  • 02/05/2018 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB969S1
  • 02/06/2018 - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 1-N)
  • 02/08/2018 - House: Placed on Calendar
  • 02/08/2018 - House: Read first time
  • 02/08/2018 - House: Referred to Committee on Education
  • 02/09/2018 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB969S1)
  • 02/16/2018 - House: Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #1
  • 02/26/2018 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N)
  • 02/26/2018 - House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
  • 02/28/2018 - House: Reported from Education with substitute (18-Y 4-N)
  • 02/28/2018 - House: Committee substitute printed 18107667D-H1
  • 02/28/2018 - House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
  • 03/01/2018 - House: Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education
  • 03/01/2018 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB969H1)
  • 03/02/2018 - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (6-Y 2-N)
  • 03/06/2018 - House: Left in Appropriations

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